<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>4:50 weeks ago and te ati awa will oppose wellington's proposed motorway extension until its land claim is <&>5:00 settled <,> the government has finally agreed to reserve f m frequencies in auckland wellington and christchurch for the use of broadcasters promoting <&>pronounced as permoting maori language and culture communications minister maurice williamson says the provision of f m frequencies for maori use in these three centres has been investigated by the ministry of commerce since the waitangi tribunal recommended they be provided last year the frequency that has been reserved in christchurch is being used on a temporary basis by te reo o tautahi te runanga o ngati whatua is interested in using an f m frequency in auckland <,> as reliably TIPped by mana news at midday three weeks ago moana pacific fisheries has agreed to buy the inshore fishing assets of skeggs which include fish quota vessels and processing factories moana was formed last september when a joint venture company including wilson neill and a consortium of maori investors bought the assets of <&>6:00 fletcher fishing's inshore operation for twenty million dollars moana is now a fully owned maori company with assets of more than fifty million dollars and staff of more than two hundred it's the largest processor harvester and marketer of seafood products from the new zealand inshore fishery the company has significant quota allocation of high value species such as lobster snapper and orange roughy and processing facilities in auckland pukekohe gisborne napier masterton wellington and blenheim as part of the buy out of skeggs thirty five skeggs staff will transfer to moana <,> tut meanwhile maori fisheries commission chairman tipene oregan has welcomed the deal saying it's a significant investment for maoridom he says the commission isn't concerned that aotearoa fisheries limited is only an interim company that is supposed to be phased out towards the end of next year when all fish quota acquired for maori under the maori fisheries act is to be handed over to iwi <&>6:52 <&>thirty one seconds not transcribed Tipene ORegan interview <&>7:23 tipene oregan doesn't think it will be the <.>lou the last acquisition either but says by then he expects it will be the various iwi negotiating deals by themselves <,> leaked papers from an accident <.>cor compensation corporation reform committee shows wage earners may have to pay a special compo levy to cover the cost of nonwork accidents the papers show the levy would be the same as a zero point eight percent tax rise but the minister in charge of a c c bill birch says it's just one of the options being considered at the moment employers pay an average one <&>8:00 dollar sixty five a c c levy for every <.>w hundred dollars they pay out in wages and about seventy cents of that one dollar sixty five goes towards nonwork accidents this new proposal would shift some of the burden onto wage earners but mister birch says the various proposals BEing considered will be issued in a paper after the july thirtieth budget <,> a secret report which advises the government about settling maori claims under the treaty of waitangi outlined problems the crown might have in knowing who represents an iwi or hapu in negotiations law lecturer jane kelsey from auckland university is critical that the paper was <.>pe was prepared by a pakeha academic from the south island and says the government has aided the confusion over who represents an iwi <.>o or hapu <&>8:45 <&>eighteen seconds not transcribed prerecorded comment from Jane Kelsey <&>9:03 jane kelsey says it's definitely not the job of the government to decide who speaks for hapu or iwi <&>9:10 <&>fifteen seconds not transcribed prerecorded comment from Jane Kelsey <&>9:25 tut a department of health policy paper just released sets out how the problem of hearing loss for under fives should be tackled the paper spells out twelve goals and strategies several relate to screening and testing campaigns as well as follow up and treatment procedures and special education to <.>reduc to reDUCE disabilities caused by deafness the section on maori children's hearing focuses on <&>10:00 preventing and treating glue ear through more and better community health programmes associate minister of health katherine oregan says the policy includes many recommendations from whakarongo mai the ninety eighty nine report on maori hearing impairment that report linked maori hearing loss with low income poor housing under employment and poor health and education <,> te ati awa will oppose wellington's proposed one hundred and ten million dollar motorway extension until its land claim before the waitangi tribunal is resolved in a report released on the motorway te ati awa says the project would have disastrous consequences for local maori the report says the motorway is of great significance to the waitangi claim because under the wellington tenths reserve agreement the land belongs to te ati awa it says if the waitangi tribunal return this land it would be a severe denigration of mana to find that a motorway had been built on it the further <.>re the report further says <&>11:00 efficient planning of the motorway can only be done by involving te ati awa in the process te ati awa says the <.>ap proposed extension encroaches on two sections of central city land designated as native reserve <,> an under resourced maori education system has been boosted with the revival of the wharekura and tai tau toko series of reading books the books were first published in the nineteen sixties but have been absent from secondary school maori classes for the past thirteen years until being republished by the education ministry's learning media group maori publications editor walton walker says during this time there've been NO maori publications specifically prepared for secondary schools he says learning media intends to follow up with three more books in each series before the end of the year <,> the principal of bernard fergusson bilingual school at ngaruawahia missus iria whiu is one of three n z e i representatives to a pacific <&>12:00 conference of teachers' organisations in fiji iria whiu national institute president <.>nash carol parker and vice president neville lambert will be letting other pacific teacher organisations know about the range of threats they believe new zealand education faces from government changes after the council of <.>partic of pacific teachers' organisations' meeting ends iria whiu will go on to a training seminar in honiara the solomon islands and that ends mana news at midday i'm wena harawira kia ora <&>12:28 <&>end of sample